Jury told two men sold drugs from a shared house in Whitley

Anthony Bloomfield, 37, is jointly charged with Julian Beaton, 27, of Nire Road, Caversham, on one count of possession of cocaine with intent to supply, one count of possession of crack cocaine with intent, and one count of possession of heroin with intent

Two men ran a drug dealing operation from a room in a shared house in Whitley, a court heard.

A jury at Reading Crown Court heard yesterday how on May 21, 2012, police officers executed a warrant under the misuse of drugs act on a house in Basingstoke Road, where they discovered class A drugs.

Anthony Bloomfield, 37, is jointly charged with Julian Beaton, 27, of Nire Road, Caversham, on one count of possession of cocaine with intent to supply, one count of possession of crack cocaine with intent, and one count of possession of heroin with intent.

Bloomfield denies the charges.

Beaton admitted the charges at an earlier hearing in April.

Nadia Chbat, prosecuting, told the jury Bloomfield was living at the house when it was searched.

A total of 91mg of cocaine, 2.66g of crack cocaine, and 1.382g of heroin was discovered by officers in three areas of the house.

A bag was discovered floating in the communal toilet of the house containing 15 individual wraps of crack cocaine, one wrap of cocaine, and one wrap of heroin.

Miss Chbat said: “Giving the appearance someone was trying to flush them down the toilet.”

Two wraps of heroin were discovered in Bloomfield’s bedroom, a roll of cling film, three sets of scales with traces of drugs on them, a “considerable amount of cash” and two tick lists.

Nadia Chbat said: “A tick list is where drug dealers sell their drugs to drug users on tick, they don’t take the money straight away, but write down amounts.”

Officers also seized a mobile phone which had a message received at 11am saying: “Can we come get a white?” and a second message received at 11.18am asking: “One of each mate I’m here.”

“Customers, the prosecution say, with an order to Mr Bloomfield and Mr Beaton,” said Miss Chbat.

“They are involved together at this premises with drug dealing.”

Three further wraps of heroin and a pair of scales were discovered in a second bedroom in the house.

Bloomfield was interviewed twice by police.

Miss Chbat said on the first occasion he denied the drugs or lists found by police in the house were his.

She said: “He said that he had a friend staying in his bedroom and that some idiot has given his friend a key.”

Miss Chbat said police asked Bloomfield about the money in his wardrobe to which he admitted being on benefits but had recently started work.

Bloomfield said the Sony Ericsson phone seized by police was his.

When police examined the phone they found someone in the contacts called Ozzy, a name which featured on one of the tick lists found in Bloomfield’s bedroom, explained Miss Chbat.

Bloomfield was interviewed for a second time after his fingerprints were found on both tick lists and on the scales found in the second bedroom. He answered no comment to all the questions.

Beaton will be sentenced on the conclusion of the trial, which continues today.